[…] series of jobs or did you stay there the whole time?I stayed in that industry for, mm, nine years.Mm.Mm, it was there that I was introduced to trade unionism.Yes.By sheer chance meeting a fellow that was canvassing round the gate and, mm, it allsounded interesting and worthy to me. I’d had some asp[…]
[…]was at Warner Brothers, yes, at Teddington...KM:... where I never worked.Sidney Cole: When did you start - you must have got more associated with the Union in those days, had you?Kay Mander: I think I was - yes, I was on the General Council, wasn't I?Sidney Cole: You must have been one of the very e[…]
[…]That was the area in which I worked. And it was around that time, within a few months, I joined ACT. Manny Yospa: Was it difficult in organising unions in Kodak? Geoff Conway: Oh yes. They wouldn't recognise unions, they had their own in-house representation union as it were which was fina[…]
[…] 8 sound crews at that time) in to the ACT union in 1938. The membership increased dramatically after a recruiting […]
[…] to it as well, you know, the work in the laboratories I feel now has become far more technical than ever it was in the old days. The result of trade union activity within the industry has removed some of the fears. Nowadays, because of the variations of procedure and method. One cannot pursue the o[…]
[…] to it as well, you know, the work in the laboratories I feel now has become far more technical than ever it was in the old days. The result of trade union activity within the industry has removed some of the fears. Nowadays, because of the variations of procedure and method. One cannot pursue the o[…]
[…] it seems incredible now – a history of the trade union movement, with Lord Francis Williams, Postmaster General in Attlee’s […]
[…] a Denham shop because at that "time not everyone working at Denham was in the ACT and I was about the only member of the sound department who in the union. One lunchtime I remember we had a meeting with both Anthony Asquith who was the president in those days and George Elvin and they both addresse[…]
[…]k Gemmell, Terry Ashwood. [Pause] Frank Bassill.Ken Gordon?Ken, Ken Gordon, oh yes, old Ken, a friend of mine, yes.Yes. [Laughter]These were all good union men. And Ken Gordon and, oh, there was quite a few of them. And then we had Bob Walker, Danvers Walker, he was a commentator.Y es.13Name of inte[…]
[…]r the company is that right?Speaker 1 9:34 An agreement, yes. And one of the clauses in there that you were not permitted to join a trade union. That's Yes, you know, yesUnknown Speaker 9:47 was I believeSpeaker 1 9:49 F Brown. I was surprised when I was at the Mu[…]
